Wayne state research has developed thermal images used on airplanes to detect tiny fissures in the body of the plane.

Smooth rock, yet broken by tiny fissures that provided a way up, if raw and bleeding fingers could be forced inside.

Yet subtle changes have begun, even if they amount to tiny fissures in a repressive state.

Karr hovered at ten feet, letting cataracts of water drain from a thousand tiny fissures.

First you find a tiny fissure in a person or policy of the opposing campaign.

She set her chin against the tiny fissure and gasped into it.

He blows the glass again, so that it expands and the paper-thin metals split into tiny fissures.

He could feel tiny fissures opening and spreading like spider cracks in the forest floor with each impact.

Also, the power was drained through a tiny fissure in the tricorder, which we don't think existed there before.

Other kinds of tiny fissures and cracks can also help pinpoint a mechanical fault, investigators say.